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I miss my semi-bricked n900. I know one of us always chimes in, but still, it's true. It was a very functional phone. I need to solder a USB cable onto the data
by luxpir 10y ago
I miss my semi-bricked n900. I know one of us always chimes in, but still, it's true. It was a very functional phone. I need to solder a USB cable onto the data-pads under the battery to retrieve some data and possibly restore it, but it served very well for 5 years.
The Ubuntu phone is a tolerable placeholder. A Jolla seems like it would be just tolerable also (as per sametmax's comments) but I'll have to keep waiting for something decent and open.
Also still holding out for convergence... Give it another 5 years probably!
- pessimizer 10y ago> I need to solder a USB cable onto the data-pads under the battery to retrieve some data You can just rsync to get the data off. That port only needs to work if you need to reimage, or you only have one battery/don't like swapping batteries every day..
- luxpir 10y agoThanks, normally that would be OK but I basically apt-get autoremoved some system utils [0] and the thing wouldn't boot again. Had been so careful for years, then one careless keystroke and I'd hosed the system. I'd reflash it, but the re-solder of the usb port finally went and took most of the PCB connectors with it. And I was careful there too, again for years. So without booting and without data connectivity, rsync won't be an option. So it's a case of (I think) soldering a new USB cable into place under the battery, charging, exfil the data, then reflash to finally have it back in business. Albeit with a rat-tail hanging out the case. -- [0] Never figured out what the utils were, but seem to recall it being part of a python dependency chain. So autoremove had somehow, probably incorrectly, thought it was OK to get rid of a key component of some kind. It was the power kernel with a bunch of mods, so probably my own fault somewhere along the line.
- digi_owl 10y agoWell they are using systemd, and if one unit fails to come up in systemd, the whole thing will throw a hissy fit and go into emergency mode.
- pessimizer 10y agoI hear you. I hate that neither N900 nor Jolla can just have mainline boring Debian with normal boring updates, but instead have to be Frankenstein's monsters filled with proprietary blobs and /opt-ified nonsense. If you do anything slightly strange, apt-get turns dangerous. I would say to make sure that you have all of the Maemo images saved somewhere, and know where the repos currently reside. I just reimaged another N900 and got it current in order to avoid dealing with its broken USB port, and it's starting to become a bit of an ordeal. t.m.o. is dying...
- wicket 10y ago> I hate that neither N900 nor Jolla can just have mainline boring Debian with normal boring updates The N900 can. Shameless plug: https://github.com/dderby/debian900/ https://github.com/dderby/debian900/
- luxpir 10y agoThanks for that. I'd better look into that sooner rather than later. Funny, I was actually cleaning up the system to reinstate the Debian chroot. That basically is the end game with mobile computing, I suppose. Fully mobile and portable systems, good battery life, processing power and of course open. One of these days, maybe!
- ashitlerferad 10y agoYou might like the Neo900: http://neo900.org/ http://neo900.org/